“Oh this poor world, this poor, suffering, ignorant, fear-filled world! How can men be blind or deranged enough to think it is a good world? How can they be cold and satanic enough to be unmoved by the groans and anguish, the writhing and tears, that come up from its unparalleled afflictions?”

—  J. Howard Moore

"Conclusion", p. 328
The Universal Kinship (1906), The Ethical Kinship

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